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Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: His life is on the line now.

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I pay tribute to the determination and resolve of the 2,400 bus workers who have spent 12 days on the picket line defending themselves against unilateral and savage cuts to their pay and the public transport system. In the Minister's attempt to justify his absence from the pitch and failure to intervene in this matter, he has repeated endlessly the mantra that he does not have a...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggest that after this discussion, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport should meet the transport workers who provide the transport service. They will explain to him that this crisis has been manufactured, the game is rigged and the playing field is not level. Everything has conspired to force this dispute. The workers who have been suffering on the picket line for 12 days are...

Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Minister answer the question on Transport Infrastructure Ireland-----

Brexit: Statements (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Mick Barry. Deputy Adams said that Theresa May does not care about the people of this island, North or South, and he is absolutely right. Frankly, she does not care about the vast majority of people in Britain, but she certainly does not care about the people here, North or South. She has allowed, and I suspect she will continue to allow, her cynical...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a report (details supplied) on the tax rates paid by international banks here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16466/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has read the recent report by a person (details supplied) into NAMA, which claims it has failed in delivering its remit and has potentially lost €18 billion for the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16467/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tender Process (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount groups (details supplied) will each be paid for assistance in the flotation of a bank; when and the way the tenders were advertised for these contracts; and the details of any meetings he had with these groups or representatives of these groups in the past year. [16665/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if revised pay scales and allowances for persons recruited to certain direct entry grades are applicable to the position of Youthreach resource persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the circulars for revised pay scales and allowances for persons recruited to direct entry grades and if the circulars are applicable to the position of Youthreach resource persons from 2010 to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Freedom of Information Remit (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if business improvement districts established under the Local Government (Business Improvement Districts) Act 2006 will be brought in under the Freedom of Information Acts in the interest of openness, accountability and transparency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16663/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there have been internal recommendations in his Department to change the criteria for accessing back to education allowance; if he will consider allowing greater access to persons applying to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16607/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 538. To ask the Minister for Health the way he has ensured the availability of the meningitis B vaccine from the HSE in order to prevent the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in the UK and Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16533/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice reform last met. [15435/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice reform will next meet. [16464/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am amazed the last meeting took place on 7 March given everything that is happening. There is an unprecedented storm going on in terms of the behaviour of An Garda Síochána, the scandals around the breath tests, wrongful convictions and the questions over the Commissioner, yet the Cabinet committee did not meet since 7 March. It is absolutely extraordinary. Even more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like a response on this matter because that is not acceptable. Has the Taoiseach discussed it? Is he aware of these suspensions? Is there one law for Nóirín O'Sullivan and another for other employees under the remit of the Department of Justice and Equality?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This was a question of particular relevance.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This was not just any question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Or not. She has not-----